The UK Government’s national insurance increase is “inexplicable” if ministers want to increase growth, Scotland’s Finance Secretary has said. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her October budget ...

David Lammy has said it is “deeply concerning” that two British MPs have been refused entry to Israel. It is understood that Labour MPs Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed are the two parliamentarians ...

High street jobs and investment plans are at risk because of the hike in national insurance payments, retail and hospitality bosses have warned. It comes as the rate of employer NICs (national ...

Goals from Karim Adeyemi, Carney Chukwuemeka, Serhou Guirassy and Jamie Gittens handed Borussia Dortmund a 4-1 win at Freiburg, while Ermedin Demirovic helped himself to a hat-trick in Stuttgart’s 4-0 ...

Brentford manager Thomas Frank is preparing his side to attack Chelsea and will not stand down his high-press principles when the teams meet at the Gtech Stadium in Sunday’s west London derby.

Branded merchandise and staff “away days” for civil servants are set to be curbed as the Government continues its crackdown on Whitehall spending. Senior minister Pat McFadden has said that “cutting ...

Labour has suspended MP and mayor Dan Norris after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual offences against a girl and rape. The party confirmed on Saturday night that it had suspended Norris, 65, ...

Labour MP Dan Norris has been suspended from the party on Saturday after he was arrested on suspicion of non-recent sexual offences against a girl and rape. Avon and Somerset Police said that a man in ...

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to “do everything necessary” to protect the UK’s national interest in the wake of Donald Trump’s ...

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says his side will travel to Paris for their Champions League quarter-final first leg with confidence after racking up a seventh win in a row.

A Turkish Football Federation statement read: “Fenerbahce technical manager Jose Mario Dos Santos Mourinho Felix, due to his unsportsmanlike conduct towards an opposing team member, was penalised with ...

Protesters hit out at the Trump administration’s moves to dismiss thousands of federal workers, close Social Security Administration field offices, effectively abolish entire agencies, deport ...